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  • A Beautiful Adoption Quilt

    One of my dearest friends adopted in 2018 and I was able to throw her shower. I LOVE showers and I was so happy I got to do this one. Because it was an international adoption I went with a globe/map theme, utilizing my local Buy Nothing group to borrow a bunch of them. We had a beautiful group of women and I wanted to do something extra special for our activity. I love the idea of guests books but think they are not always the best for long term… how often do you get them out and look at…

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  • Merry Christmas…. Er… Happy Halloween!

    Phew, I pulled it off, barely! Nothing like starting a few days before Halloween! Bj cut cardboard for the sleigh, and we got high gloss red house paint to paint it. We ended up having to zip tie the sides on. It was nice for our little elf to ride in when she got tired/cold. Tuesday decided right after Halloween last year that she wanted to be Santa Clause… I kept thinking she’d change her mind, but nope! I got these beautiful boots a wee bit big because they’re great for prairie girl stuff too. I made the outfit by…

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  • Celebrating Five

    Last year Tuesday had a car themed party. And she told me then what the next few parties were going to be, she had it all planned out. I did not expect her to remember or still want the train themed party that was next in the line up twelve months ago because it has not been all about trains any more. In fact I put the whole big pile of Thomas books away in storage. But she was like, duh, yes, I said a train party. So train party it was! Hilariously she talked Bj into growing a mustache.…

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